The Real North Korea: in its Multiplicity of Origins, Dynamics, and Futures | SOAS

The Real North Korea: in its Multiplicity of Origins, Dynamics, and Futures | SOAS:

Date

11 February 2023

Time

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Key information

11 FEBRUARY 2023

TheReal NorthKorea: in its

Multiplicity of Origins, Dynamics,

and Futures

Venue

Russell Square: College Buildings

Room

Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)

Event type

Conference

Aboutthis event

Speakers: Andrei Lankov, Park Hyung-jung, Tatiana

Gabroussenko, Balazs Szalontai, Kevin Gray,

Charlotte Webb, Camilo Aguirre, Peter Ward

Summary

This special one-day symposium on North Korea's history, society and

economy will be co-hosted by the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and

the AKS Korean Studies Laboratory: 'The Real North Korea'. It will be an

opportunity to hear and discuss cutting edge research in a number of

areas, including media and labour history, North Korea's international

relations with the global south, and recent economic changes within the

DPRK. The event is open to all, but registration is required.

Programme

Time Description

9:00am9:30am

Arrival, registration, tea and coffee

9:30am9:40am

Welcoming remarks

9:40am12:40am

First panel session

Tatiana Gabroussenko (Korea University) - North

Korean culture of the 1980s: the delayed 'thaw'

Discussant: Xiaoning Lu (SOAS)

Andrei Lankov / Peter Ward (Kookmin University)

- The Political (dis-)Embeddedness and Autonomy

of North Korean Markets and Firms

Discussant: Yoram Gorlizki (University of

Manchester)

Charlotte Webb (SOAS) - Protecting the health of

production: healthcare and the stratification of the

North Korean industrial working class

Discussant: Donald Filtzer (University of East

London)

12:40pm1:30pm

Lunch break

1:30pm3:30pm

Second panel session

Camilo Aguirre Torrini (University of Sussex)

- “People’s Diplomacy”: Chile- (North)Korea

Friendship Association and the Building of Bilateral

Relations, 1958-1973

Discussant: Owen Miller (SOAS)

Time Description

3:50pm4:50pm

Park Hyeong-jung (Korea Institute for National

Unification) - The Political Economy of the “Military

First Politics” under Kim Jong-il’s Reign, 1995-2011

Discussant: Kevin Gray (University of Sussex)

3:30pm3:50pm

Tea and coffee

Second panel session continued

Balazs Szalontai (Korea University) - North Korea

Discovers the Maghreb: Propaganda Narratives in

the Formative Phase of Pyongyang’s Northwest

African Diplomacy

Discussant: TBC

4:50pm5:00pm

Closing remarks and wrap up

Registration

This event is free and open to public. Please note that this event will be

held both on campus and online.

If you would like to attend in person, please register via Microsoft

Forms.

If you would like to attend online, please register via Zoom.

Contact: centres@soas.ac.uk

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